The Phillies will continue their N.L. East play Monday night as they open a four-game set with the Braves, and their newly acquired right-hander Ervin Santana. Santana, who tossed eight scoreless in his debut, has faced the Phillies only once in his career, pitching seven innings and allowing just one unearned run in that start. The only Phillies who have ever faced him are Marlon Byrd, Tony Gwynn Jr., Jayson Nix and Will Nieves, with the latter two collecting the only hits. Santana will have to quiet the league’s hottest hitter in Chase Utley, who, after going 3-for-4 on Sunday, rose his average to .500 (20-for-40) with three homers and 10 RBI. This is the Phillies’ first game this season against Atlanta, who in 2013 won the season series over the Phillies 11-8.

This loss is squarely on Sandberg for his mismanagement of the pitching staff. Starter should have been replaced after first batter in sixth inning, he was obviously laboring near the 100 pitch level, yet no one was even warming up. Then later, back to back homers should be enough for any glutton, but maybe they were just lucky; let’s make it three.

The 1-2 punch of Adams & Papelbon are earning a combined $20 million this season, which doesn’t leave much money to fill out the rest of the pen. Unfortunately, allocation of resources has never been one of Amaro’s strong suits.